Hay-loader.



PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907.

E. A. JOHNSTON.

HAY LOADBR.

APPLICATION FILED 0011a, 1906.

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EDWARD A. JOHNSTON, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNA- TIONAL HARVES'IER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

HAY-LOADER.

No. $13,824.. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

Application filed October 13, 1906. Serial No 338,692.

To all whom it may concern: At the forward or delivery end of the mem- Be it known that I, EDWARD A. JOHNSTON, bers 7 isjournaled a transverse shaft 15, hava citizen of the United States, residing at ing a series of angular plates 16 mounted Sterling, in the county of I/Vhiteside and thereon and spaced apart by means of sleeves State of Illinois, have invented certain new 17. At one or, both ends of the shaft are seand useful Improvements in Hay-Loaders, of cured sprocket-wheels 18, having sprocketwhich the follo'wim is a specification. chains 19 connecting them with sprocket- My invention relates to iniprove'trentsin wheels 20, secured to the opposite ends of hay-loaders in which endless carriers are the shaft 12 in a manner to transmit motion [0 operativelv supported upon inclined carrierfrom the shaft 12 to the shaft 15. 6 5 frames and operate to deliver the hay upon For the purpose of moving the frame 6 the wagon; and the object of my invention is along the carrier-frame there are depending to provide a supplemental forwarding niech brackets 21, secured to the side members of anisni adapted to receive the hay from the the carrier-frame, the brackets having sleeve 1 5 delivery end of the carrier and deposit it portions 22, adapted to receive the rear ends upon the load in a manner to prevent the reof bars 23, the forward ends of the bars being turn portion of the carrier from dragging the secured to the side members 7 of the frame 6. hay downward from the load toward the re- The rear ends of the bars are threaded, and ceiving end of the carrier. I attain this ob- 24 represents handwheels engaging with the 20 ject by the mechanism illustrated in the acthreaded portions at opposite ends of the companying drawings, in whicl. sleeves in a manner to adjust the bars in Figure 1. is a side elevation of the delivery either d rection. end of a carrier embodying my invention. A series of curved strippers 24 are secured Fig. 2 is side elevation of a part of Fig. 1, to the transverse bar 10 and are designed to 25 showing part of the supplemental carrier in extend across the spaces between the angusection; and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a lar plates 16. One end of each stripper is separt of Fig. 1. cured to the top of the bar 10, and then they Similar numerals refer to similar parts are curved upward and forward above the throughout the several views. sleeves and between the plates to a point be- ;0 The carrier-frame is one having a comm on yond the path of the forward rotation of the form, comprising side members 1, connected plates and then downward and rearward to by means of transverse bars 2,upon which are the lower side of the bar 10, where they are secured the slats 3, forming a support for the secured. endless carrier, comprising endless chains 4, In operation the hay is delivered by the 5 upon opposite sides of the carrier-frame and endless carrier to the supplemental forwardconnected by means of the usual cross-bars 5. ing device, and the angular plates operate to 6 represents a carrierfran.e having side deliver it upon the load, and the strippers members 7, provided with outwardly-proprevent any being drawn rearward to engage jecting lip portions 8, adapted to rest upon with the return portion of the carrier and be 40 the upper side of the carrier-frame mei'iiibers moved backward off the load. 5 1, and other outwardly-projecting lip por- What I claim as being my invention, and tions 9, located below the members 1, the desire to secure by Letters Patent, istwo series of lips forming between them a 1. In a hay-loader the combination of a channel for the reception of the frame memcarrier-frame, an endless carrier mounted 5 her 1 in a manner to allow the frame 6 to be upon said frame and adapted to convey the we moved longitudinally relative to the carrierhay toward the delivery end of said loader, a frame. supplemental forwarding device operatively 10 represents a transverse bar, having its connected with said endless carrier atits deopposite ends secured to the members 7 of livery end in a manner to receive the hay 50 the frame 6. Journaled in bearings 11 at the therefrom, said supplemental forwarding de rear ends of the members 7 is a transverse vice comprising a rotatable shaft having a shaft 12, having a roller 13 secured to its series of angular plates mounted thereon and body portion and sprocket-wheels 14 at having a series of strippers mounted between opposite ends thereof to receive the endless the plates.

55 chains of the carrier in the common way. 2. In a hay-loader the combination of a no I carrier-frame, an endless carrier mounted l upon said frame and adapted to convey the hay toward the delivery end of said loader, a supplemental. forwarding device operatively connected with said endless carrier at its delivery end in a manner to receive the hay therefrom, said supplemental forwarding de vice comprising a longitudinally-movable frame mounted upon the delivery end of said carrier-frame, a rotatable shaft mounted in said supplemental frame, said shaft having a series of angular plates mounted thereon and a series of strippers mounted between the plates.

3. In a hay-loader the combination of a carrier-frame, an endless carrier mounted upon said frame and adapted to convey the hay toward the delivery end of said loader, a supplemental forwarding device operatively connected with the delivery end of said endless carrier, said device comprising a frame supported upon said carrier-frame at its delivery end, rearwardly-extending bars secured to said supplemental frame, depending brackets secured to said carrier-frame and adapted to receive the rear ends of said bars,

and means for adjusting the bars longitudinally relative to the brackets. J 4. In a hay-loader the combination of a i carrier-frame, said frame comprising side members, an endless carrier mounted upon said frame and adapted to convey the hay toward the delivery end of said loader, a supplemental forwarding device operatively connected with the delivery end of said endless carrier, said device comprising a frame having side members, said side members connected by means of a transverse bar, outwardly-projecting lips integral with said side members and forming a channel in which is received the delivery ends of the side members of said carrier-frame, a transverse shaft mounted at the rear ends of the side members of the supplemental forwarding device and adapted to receive one end of said endless carrier, a transverse shaft mounted at the opposite end of said side members, hayforwarding members secured to said lastmentioned shaft, means for transmitting motion to said shaft, and means for moving said supplemental forwarding device bodily in a longitudinal direction relative to the endless carrier frame.

EDWARD A. JOHNSTON.

Vitnesses:

E. R. THOMPSON, F. F. WARD. 

